Bandcamp Friday Oct. 2, 2020. Clockwise from left: Chillhop Music, Svalbard, Zao, Vatican Shadow, Crack Cloud, Sarah Davachi, Deerhoof, Uniform, Arca and Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou. If anyone has a unique opportunity to support independent music, it’s Bandcamp. But the Bandcamp Friday concept has taken that support to…

Clockwise from top left: Gatecreeper, Numenorean, False, Abyssal, The Great Old Ones, Russian Circles, Dead To A Dying World, Baroness, Archivist and Uniform & The Body. We’re nearing the end of our dastardly journey! The following records honestly would have made it into my top 10… if the final…

The last The Body and Uniform collaboration felt like a water test. Rhode Island’s prolific sludge metal weirdos and New York’s industrial upstarts proved they could play well together, but it still needed that extra push to rival The Body’s collaborations with Thou, Krieg and most famously Full of…

Even a handful of Emperor Caligula’s misdeeds justify the Roman leader’s legacy as an insane tyrant. His decedent sadism undercurrents Kristin Hayter’s latest album as Lingua Ignota. The Rhode Island experimental artist is no stranger to appropriating evil and violence. Infusing death industrial, avant-metal and ritual ambient music with…

Photos: Joaquin Cabello SAN FRANCISCO — Bay Area blackgaze metal band Deafheaven brought its 2018 album, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, with its dreamy soundscapes of shoegaze and the extremeness of black metal to a sold-out August Hall Tuesday. Deafheaven performs at August Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 14, 2018. With…

Sumac, courtesy. Drug Church, “Avoidarama” — If Turnstile formed in Seattle during the mid-’90s, there’s a good chance Drug Church would have emerged. This Albany, New York group has all the stomp riffs hardcore kids like to flail around to. But there’s a distinct flavor of slacker rock in…

Since releasing “the grossest pop album of all time” in 2016, the members of Portland’s The Body have kept themselves busy with two collaborations with Full of Hell and a self-released mini-album. Even so, the sludge metal interlopers’ cacophonic experimentation remained ornamental, against strangulated cries, crushing riffs and caveman…